On Aug 23, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Aug 23, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: >> >> >>> I've been considering upgrading my Mac to 10.4.2. However, I notice >>> that >>> there are very few python packages for 10.4 at >>> <http://pythonmac.org/packages/>... >>> >> >> The version marker for a package is the minimum required version >> (really -- the version of Mac OS X on which it was built). 10.3 >> packages work fine on 10.4, especially those for Python 2.4. >> > > That is great news! > > It would be helpful for the page to note that fact. Any suggestions on > how to encourage or help that to happen?
Write the copy and I'll paste it in :) >>> As an aside, I'd love to upgrade to python 2.4.x but then to >>> distribute >>> my app I'd have to figure out how to build a fully standalone app >>> (one >>> that includes python). >>> >> >> If you're using py2app, that happens by default when using a non- >> System interpreter. >> > > Perfect. And I'm guessing that py2app can be asked to make fully > standalone even if using the built-in python interpreter (thus > allowing > me to eventually build on 10.5 and run on 10.4). py2app refuses to place any files that are part of the operating system into an application. If you want a standalone application, you must use a standalone interpreter to build it. Generally, software that ships with OS X is built with flags such that it won't work on previous versions of Mac OS X anyway. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
